Word: louts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl jumped out, took one look at her smashed grill and headlights, and shrieked at the round little driver of the Buick. He was a stupid lout, cried she, and he probably sold his wife's virtue. His answer was two brief words: both meant that she was in his opinion a woman of the streets. The girl got her car into gear, backed it out, drove ahead of the Buick and then went into reverse. There was a horrible crunch, but she had aimed badly. Now her Oldsmobile had a big hole in the trunk; the Buick...
...truth seemed to be that the Nazis -while suppressing resisters-had courted Paris as a moonstruck lout courts a handsome woman. Paris had smiled grimly and waited her chance to kick the lout in the derriere. Last week...
...lonely street of a suncracked Nevada town. They enter a saloon In the whiskied twilight of the day, a native appears with news of an up-country rancher's murder. The whole ennui-soaked town comes to life with sinister vigor. A posse is illegally deputized by a lout who happens to be substituting for the official sheriff. The mob includes a blood-crazy pants-wearing woman; a smoldering ex-Confederate ramrod in uniform; his nervous, effeminate son; a bully who suspects the two strangers; a slobbering sadist caressing a rope; and two men who are desperately in opposition...
...contempt which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group of epithets schoolboys apply to townies, the lowest form of animal life, or schoolmates they dislike. Samples: swine, tick, cad, oik, lout, drip, squirt, scug, goof. Townies often retaliate: e.g., their name for schoolboys of Durham University is varsity tits...